The current American mindset, together with seven decades of USGovt foreign policy, now present an existential threat to mankind. This blog attempts to expose the depravity of the latter in the hope of influencing the former.

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Lofgren: “There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg that a public watching C-SPAN sees daily and which is theoretically controllable via elections. The subsurface part of the iceberg I shall call the Deep State, which operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power..” This page contains links to several pieces on “Deep State”, and “Deep Politics”. Mike Lofgren is an American who is a former Republican U.S. Congressional aide. He retired in May 2011 after 28 years as a Congressional staff member. Peter Dale Scott is a Canadian-born poet, former diplomat, and former English professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Russ Baker is an American investigative journalist. In 2005, he founded the nonprofit website WhoWhatWhy.com. Robert Parry is an American investigative journalist best known …

In process Ramsey Clark: “There is one crime against humanity in this last decade of the millenium that exceeds all others in its magnitude, cruelty and portent. It is the US-forced sanctions against the twenty million people of Iraq… If the UN participates in such genocidal sanctions backed by the threat of military violence –and if the people of the world fail to prevent such conduct — the violence, terror and human misery of the new millennium will exceed anything we have known.” (Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General) Yet to be written

Essay in Process. discusses various “Deep State” concepts. Lofgren: Lofgren: “There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House or the Capitol.

ESSAY IN PROCESS: Ramsey Clark: “There is one crime against humanity in this last decade of the millenium that exceeds all others in its magnitude, cruelty and portent. It is the US-forced sanctions against the twenty million people of Iraq… If the UN participates in such genocidal sanctions backed by the threat of military violence –and if the people of the world fail to prevent such conduct — the violence, terror and human misery of the new millennium will exceed anything we have known.” (Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General)

The current American mindset, together with seven decades of USGovt foreign policy, now present an existential threat to mankind. This blog attempts to expose the depravity of the latter in the hope of influencing the former.